Dear Juno, In my opinion I think you made a good choice given your situation. But if you didn’t have the support system you did with your parents and friend I think you would have been much worse off. Although you probably should have used some sort of birth control to avoid this whole situation, giving your baby up for adoption was a good choice because it’s always nice to help someone complete their family. It probably would have been a lot easier for you to just get an abortion and move on with your life, even though your situation was kind of unrealistic, especially with how much your parents were ok with it and supported you. But props to you for being brave enough to be sixteen and pregnant and have everyone judge you. I wouldn’t be strong enough to do something like that. I support Roe v Wade because every woman should get to decide is going on with her own body and no one else should have a say in it. Medical issue or not, if you’re not ready to be a mother or don’t want to go through being pregnant, you shouldn’t have to. Also, I think men should not have a say in it at all, yes the child is also theirs but they have no idea what it’s like to have a life inside of you and what you had to go through to make a decision like that. Also, clauses should not be put on how late you can have an abortion it may seem more extreme to have an abortion in the third trimester, but by then I feel like most women would have already made up their mind or come to some sort of conclusion to what she’s going to do. So the only time it would really be used is for medical reasons, not to just plainly abort the baby
In my opinion I think you made a good choice given your situation. But if you didn’t have the support system you did with your parents and friend I think you would have been much worse off. Although you probably should have used some sort of birth control to avoid this whole situation, giving your baby up for adoption was a good choice because it’s always nice to help someone complete their family.
It probably would have been a lot easier for you to just get an abortion and move on with your life, even though your situation was kind of unrealistic, especially with how much your parents were ok with it and supported you. But props to you for being brave enough to be sixteen and pregnant and have everyone judge you. I wouldn’t be strong enough to do something like that.
I support Roe v Wade because every woman should get to decide is going on with her own body and no one else should have a say in it. Medical issue or not, if you’re not ready to be a mother or don’t want to go through being pregnant, you shouldn’t have to. Also, I think men should not have a say in it at all, yes the child is also theirs but they have no idea what it’s like to have a life inside of you and what you had to go through to make a decision like that. Also, clauses should not be put on how late you can have an abortion it may seem more extreme to have an abortion in the third trimester, but by then I feel like most women would have already made up their mind or come to some sort of conclusion to what she’s going to do. So the only time it would really be used is for medical reasons, not to just plainly abort the baby